PM leaves London for home

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina left London for home on Wednesday wrapping up her official visit to the United Kingdom, reports UNB.

A VVIP flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the PM left Heathrow International Airport in London at 6:55pm (London time), PM’s press secretary Ihsanul Karim said over phone from London.

Bangladesh high commissioner to the UK Saida Muna Tasneem saw her off at the airport.

The flight is scheduled to land at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 10:20am (Bangladesh time) on Thursday.

Sheikh Hasina went to London on 19 July.

During her stay in the UK, she joined the Bangladeshi envoys’ conference on 20 July.

Commonwealth secretary general Patricia Scotland QC and Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon separately called on Sheikh Hasina in London.

On 22 July, the prime minister underwent a successful surgery in her left eye at a London hospital.